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Chapter 2

The Escape

George starts to shiver all over his body.

"How do I get home if the police are all over town?"
He looks around at the others with a strange distant look in his eyes.

"What if they stop me?"

Janokovic has had his doubts from the start about whether George was safe to
join them, but the others persuaded him.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Says Janokovic, clearly annoyed.
"If you’re too scared to have the money on you, please let me know, then you

can come over to my house later and pick them up."

"I'm afraid that my father will find out I have so much money on me… and what
about the police?"

George is about to have one of his seizures. He gets it when he gets nervous.

"Now, stop all that shaking. Take one of your pills. I keep the money, ”

Janokovic says with a mixture of pinned up anger and pity. After all, George is
only 10 years old and he suffers from epilepsy.

George bends his head under the table and starts sniffing lighter gas. They've

seen this many times before, something about his dad hitting him when he got
his seizures, so he's started sniffing lighter gas and epoxy vapour. It works so he

doesn't get his seizures as often, he claims.

Janokovic takes George's pile of money and puts it in his pocket.
"Cheers," he says.

George puts his head up over the counter top again, he puts the lighter on the

table and takes a cigarette in his mouth; he has now stopped shaking. He just sits
on the couch, looking pale and being completely silent - only his lips moving

without sound.

"Are you okay?" Eik says, shaking him.

"Yes, yes," George replies, fishing a dirty piece of paper out of his trouser
pocket, he opens the paper tab and takes out two pills, which he immediately